Chapter 19 - Take the Skyline
Vince let himself in the house and the guys said hey. He saw Letty and Nyssa talking together on the couch in the back corner of the room. The two dark heads bent together talking about something serious for sure. They both looked up when he came farther in the living room then both dismissed him with a gaze and went back to their talk. Vince knew he was in trouble but he also wanted to see what she would do about it.
Seemed she wasn't going to do much of anything. She just kept talking to Letty. He walked over to them and asked Nyssa how her day had been. She told him fine and went back to talking to Letty. Her attitude said dismissed as clear as day. So she wasn't going to yell, she was going to be frosty. Vince walked away and sat with the guys. They played the game for awhile. She and Letty talked some more and Letty told her not to give in to him till she had gotten an explanation that satisfied her. Nyssa headed to bed.
Vince went down to bed about 5 minutes after her and found her sitting in front of the mirror brushing her hair. It was always quite a job since she had so much of it and it got so tangled. She winced again, she was literally ripping the brush threw her hair because she was tired and she just wanted it done. Vince figured they may as well get the fight out of the way and took the brush from her.
"So you gonna yell at me or what?"
"No, why would I yell at you Vince?"
"Cause I didn't tell you I was going to be gone all day and night and you likely worried."
"You don't need to tell me what you do with your time V. You're a big boy."
"I should have told you I was going to be gone awhile. I know you worried and I know you're pissed at me. I'll tell you when I expect to be home next time."
"That's fine Vince. It makes no difference; I don't want to control your comings and goings."
God she was stubborn. She was not giving in. He was trying to get away without doing what he was now going to have to do. Apologise. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you where I went and when I would be home alright?" That was what she had been waiting for.
"I really don't care were you go Vince. It's none of my business. But an idea when you think you'll be home would be nice. I did worry. You never took off all day before."
"Deal. From now on if I will be gone like I was today, I'll make sure you know."
He still had her hair brush. He turned her back around in her seat and started to brush her hair for her. He would swear she was making a purring noise like a cat being stroked while he did it.
He watched her in the mirror while he finished brushing her hair, her head thrown back, the long caramel column of her throat, the v of her robe, her pretty face, those intriguing, too smart eyes, closed, saving him from the scrutiny. She always looked at him like she knew him. The real him, not the Vince that people thought they knew. The team knew the real him and up till Nyssa they were the only ones. Everyone else thought he was just big dumb Vince, Dom's friend. Mostly he liked it like that. No one wanted to mess with him, and when people didn't expect too much from you it was hard to let them down.
With Nyssa, he thought, it was hey that's Dom, Vince's friend. It was nice to come first; it did hurt to have people think he was dumb all the time. He should drop the act. But it was how he survived for so many years. But Nyssa saw through all the crap. There was something to that. He tied her hair back the way he had watched her do so many times and then she opened her eyes. Her eyes met his in the mirror and it felt like they were looking into each other's souls. In that moment Vince was sure about one thing. Nyssa was the girl he wanted right now. The future had a way of figuring itself out and he was through denying himself the pleasure of having Nyssa in his life as his girl. The mere thought of her as someone else's filled him with rage. The thought of Mia with Brian no longer did, but if he thought of Nyssa with Leon, or even some random guy from her school he wanted to lay a beating on whoever it was he was thinking of at the time.
He leaned over and kissed her neck. She leaned back against his chest and closed her eyes again. Nyssa felt the change in the way he was treating her. He had never been anything but sweet, but he always held a part of himself back from her. He wasn't now. She knew that after tonight things were never going to be the same in her world. She cared about Vince. There had been no talk of how they would go on but that would just have to be played by ear because she wanted this. Had for some time but it had to be his decision. Seemed like he had made it. He picked her up and carried her to bed. He pulled his shirt off over his head and crawled onto the bed. They kissed some more and this time Nyssa just let nature take it's course. Right before the moment he joined them she stopped him because the one other time she had done this was three years before and it had hurt like hell. She wanted him to know for some reason. So she filled him in. Vince was floored that she trusted him this much and did his best to be gentle.
Nyssa had to give it to Vince; she may just have remembered that even if she was drunk. She decided to tell him that but for now she was so sleepy all she wanted to do was savour the warmth and safety of his embrace and sleep. So she did, smiling as she drifted off. Vince felt so content, better then he had in a long time. He also fell asleep with a smile on his face.
She had woken up beside this man every day for the last chunk of her life but everything was different the next day. She should have anticipated that but she hadn't. She watched him sleep. He looked so young and innocent in his sleep. But that was cliché wasn't it? Didn't every bad romance story you read have a part where one of the main characters watched the other sleep and marvelled at how innocent and sweet they looked? Well it was in all those books because it was true. The sheets were tangled around his waist and she admired the tanned expanse of his chest, her gaze traveling up to his face slowly. He was still smiling. She hoped it was thoughts of her that had put that smile there. He woke up then and looked up at her, then the smile widened.
"Hey." He said with a smile in that gravely morning voice of his, she loved how he sounded before he had his coffee.
"Hey." She said back. She smiled back and turned bright red. She had never had sex with a guy and then woke up in his bed. The only other time she had done that she had to sneak home lest her dad catch her and kill the guy. Now she was all grown up but it was still strange. She wondered if it was strange for him or if there had been so many mornings after that it was routine to him.
"You ok?"
"Couldn't be much better. You?"
"I am awesome." He pulled her down for his kiss. After the kiss he smiled at her with a look that might be wonder on his face. She wondered what that was about then caught a look at the clock.
"Oh shit, it is already 12pm. God Damn it, I meant to set the alarm." Nyssa jumped out of bed and headed to the dresser. She was so focused on getting dressed she forgot she had just paraded across the room naked.
"What's up?"
"I gotta meet Manda at her house in a half hour and it is almost that far away and I am not even dressed yet."
"Call her and tell her you'll be late and come back to bed."
"I can't, they are having a party for her mom's birthday and Manda and I have to drive there together. I have to pick her up right at 12:30 or we 'll be late. Much as your idea sounds so much better then an afternoon of Manda's snotty mother and her side of that family. Oh man. I gotta get dressed. What am I going to wear?"
"Oh, I see, not the kind of thing you can just get out of eh?" She shook her head. "Wear your little blue leather skirt with the silver dragon on it and the black shirt with the dragon on it, plus your boots that go up to your knee."
"When did you become an authority on women's clothes?"
"I just know what I like to see you in. And I have a thing for dragons." He glanced at his dragon tattoo.
Nyssa started to pull on the outfit. She wore it so her thong would show on her hips, knowing that she was decently dressed but for that. She hated Manda's mom. "What car should I drive? Should I take the Skyline just to piss them off? When they see that thing it will give them all heart failure. Or I could take your car and let them wonder what kind of guy I hooked up with that he has a nice, family car with tens of thousands of dollars worth of mods and NOS?" She had let Vince put a decal package on her car so it would fit in better and now it had a rampant dragon on either side. Vince designed it for her. He was a bit of an artist as well as a guitar player. But the skyline would match her outfit. Vince came to the same conclusion and told her,
"Take the Skyline for sure."
"I thought so too. See you later baby, I'll come back as soon as I can." She leaned over and kissed him. She remembered what she had wanted to tell him and decided now was the best time when she could escape and he would have to dress before he could follow her. "Oh, and I just wanted you to know, after last night, I am sorry that I laughed when you told me I would remember, I know now that I would have." With that she ran out the door and up the stairs. Vince groaned. She was always doing stuff like that. Tell him something he would want to hear then run away when he couldn't chase her. If he did right now someone would get a view of more then they wanted to see because he would be running through the house naked.
Vince let himself in the house and the guys said hey. He saw Letty and Nyssa talking together on the couch in the back corner of the room. The two dark heads bent together talking about something serious for sure. They both looked up when he came farther in the living room then both dismissed him with a gaze and went back to their talk. Vince knew he was in trouble but he also wanted to see what she would do about it.
Seemed she wasn't going to do much of anything. She just kept talking to Letty. He walked over to them and asked Nyssa how her day had been. She told him fine and went back to talking to Letty. Her attitude said dismissed as clear as day. So she wasn't going to yell, she was going to be frosty. Vince walked away and sat with the guys. They played the game for awhile. She and Letty talked some more and Letty told her not to give in to him till she had gotten an explanation that satisfied her. Nyssa headed to bed.
Vince went down to bed about 5 minutes after her and found her sitting in front of the mirror brushing her hair. It was always quite a job since she had so much of it and it got so tangled. She winced again, she was literally ripping the brush threw her hair because she was tired and she just wanted it done. Vince figured they may as well get the fight out of the way and took the brush from her.
"So you gonna yell at me or what?"
"No, why would I yell at you Vince?"
"Cause I didn't tell you I was going to be gone all day and night and you likely worried."
"You don't need to tell me what you do with your time V. You're a big boy."
"I should have told you I was going to be gone awhile. I know you worried and I know you're pissed at me. I'll tell you when I expect to be home next time."
"That's fine Vince. It makes no difference; I don't want to control your comings and goings."
God she was stubborn. She was not giving in. He was trying to get away without doing what he was now going to have to do. Apologise. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you where I went and when I would be home alright?" That was what she had been waiting for.
"I really don't care were you go Vince. It's none of my business. But an idea when you think you'll be home would be nice. I did worry. You never took off all day before."
"Deal. From now on if I will be gone like I was today, I'll make sure you know."
He still had her hair brush. He turned her back around in her seat and started to brush her hair for her. He would swear she was making a purring noise like a cat being stroked while he did it.
He watched her in the mirror while he finished brushing her hair, her head thrown back, the long caramel column of her throat, the v of her robe, her pretty face, those intriguing, too smart eyes, closed, saving him from the scrutiny. She always looked at him like she knew him. The real him, not the Vince that people thought they knew. The team knew the real him and up till Nyssa they were the only ones. Everyone else thought he was just big dumb Vince, Dom's friend. Mostly he liked it like that. No one wanted to mess with him, and when people didn't expect too much from you it was hard to let them down.
With Nyssa, he thought, it was hey that's Dom, Vince's friend. It was nice to come first; it did hurt to have people think he was dumb all the time. He should drop the act. But it was how he survived for so many years. But Nyssa saw through all the crap. There was something to that. He tied her hair back the way he had watched her do so many times and then she opened her eyes. Her eyes met his in the mirror and it felt like they were looking into each other's souls. In that moment Vince was sure about one thing. Nyssa was the girl he wanted right now. The future had a way of figuring itself out and he was through denying himself the pleasure of having Nyssa in his life as his girl. The mere thought of her as someone else's filled him with rage. The thought of Mia with Brian no longer did, but if he thought of Nyssa with Leon, or even some random guy from her school he wanted to lay a beating on whoever it was he was thinking of at the time.
He leaned over and kissed her neck. She leaned back against his chest and closed her eyes again. Nyssa felt the change in the way he was treating her. He had never been anything but sweet, but he always held a part of himself back from her. He wasn't now. She knew that after tonight things were never going to be the same in her world. She cared about Vince. There had been no talk of how they would go on but that would just have to be played by ear because she wanted this. Had for some time but it had to be his decision. Seemed like he had made it. He picked her up and carried her to bed. He pulled his shirt off over his head and crawled onto the bed. They kissed some more and this time Nyssa just let nature take it's course. Right before the moment he joined them she stopped him because the one other time she had done this was three years before and it had hurt like hell. She wanted him to know for some reason. So she filled him in. Vince was floored that she trusted him this much and did his best to be gentle.
Nyssa had to give it to Vince; she may just have remembered that even if she was drunk. She decided to tell him that but for now she was so sleepy all she wanted to do was savour the warmth and safety of his embrace and sleep. So she did, smiling as she drifted off. Vince felt so content, better then he had in a long time. He also fell asleep with a smile on his face.
She had woken up beside this man every day for the last chunk of her life but everything was different the next day. She should have anticipated that but she hadn't. She watched him sleep. He looked so young and innocent in his sleep. But that was cliché wasn't it? Didn't every bad romance story you read have a part where one of the main characters watched the other sleep and marvelled at how innocent and sweet they looked? Well it was in all those books because it was true. The sheets were tangled around his waist and she admired the tanned expanse of his chest, her gaze traveling up to his face slowly. He was still smiling. She hoped it was thoughts of her that had put that smile there. He woke up then and looked up at her, then the smile widened.
"Hey." He said with a smile in that gravely morning voice of his, she loved how he sounded before he had his coffee.
"Hey." She said back. She smiled back and turned bright red. She had never had sex with a guy and then woke up in his bed. The only other time she had done that she had to sneak home lest her dad catch her and kill the guy. Now she was all grown up but it was still strange. She wondered if it was strange for him or if there had been so many mornings after that it was routine to him.
"You ok?"
"Couldn't be much better. You?"
"I am awesome." He pulled her down for his kiss. After the kiss he smiled at her with a look that might be wonder on his face. She wondered what that was about then caught a look at the clock.
"Oh shit, it is already 12pm. God Damn it, I meant to set the alarm." Nyssa jumped out of bed and headed to the dresser. She was so focused on getting dressed she forgot she had just paraded across the room naked.
"What's up?"
"I gotta meet Manda at her house in a half hour and it is almost that far away and I am not even dressed yet."
"Call her and tell her you'll be late and come back to bed."
"I can't, they are having a party for her mom's birthday and Manda and I have to drive there together. I have to pick her up right at 12:30 or we 'll be late. Much as your idea sounds so much better then an afternoon of Manda's snotty mother and her side of that family. Oh man. I gotta get dressed. What am I going to wear?"
"Oh, I see, not the kind of thing you can just get out of eh?" She shook her head. "Wear your little blue leather skirt with the silver dragon on it and the black shirt with the dragon on it, plus your boots that go up to your knee."
"When did you become an authority on women's clothes?"
"I just know what I like to see you in. And I have a thing for dragons." He glanced at his dragon tattoo.
Nyssa started to pull on the outfit. She wore it so her thong would show on her hips, knowing that she was decently dressed but for that. She hated Manda's mom. "What car should I drive? Should I take the Skyline just to piss them off? When they see that thing it will give them all heart failure. Or I could take your car and let them wonder what kind of guy I hooked up with that he has a nice, family car with tens of thousands of dollars worth of mods and NOS?" She had let Vince put a decal package on her car so it would fit in better and now it had a rampant dragon on either side. Vince designed it for her. He was a bit of an artist as well as a guitar player. But the skyline would match her outfit. Vince came to the same conclusion and told her,
"Take the Skyline for sure."
"I thought so too. See you later baby, I'll come back as soon as I can." She leaned over and kissed him. She remembered what she had wanted to tell him and decided now was the best time when she could escape and he would have to dress before he could follow her. "Oh, and I just wanted you to know, after last night, I am sorry that I laughed when you told me I would remember, I know now that I would have." With that she ran out the door and up the stairs. Vince groaned. She was always doing stuff like that. Tell him something he would want to hear then run away when he couldn't chase her. If he did right now someone would get a view of more then they wanted to see because he would be running through the house naked.